Acknowledgements |
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Series preface |
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Foreword |
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The ``what'' and ``why'' of children's cognition |
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Domain-general vs. domain-specific accounts of cognition in children |
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The causal bias |
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Innate vs. acquired accounts of cognition in children |
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Qualitative vs. quantitative accounts of developmental change |
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Piaget's stage theory |
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xix | |
The organisation of this book |
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Cognition in infancy: Basic cognitive processes |
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1 | (24) |
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1 | (8) |
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Neonate memory for the mother's voice |
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2 | (1) |
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Neonate memory for familiar stories |
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2 | (1) |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (3) |
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Procedural vs. declarative memories? |
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9 | (1) |
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9 | (9) |
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10 | (2) |
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Visual preference and habituation |
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12 | (2) |
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Rudimentary categorisation |
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14 | (1) |
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Cross-modal perception in infancy |
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15 | (3) |
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Links between measures of early learning, memory, perception, attention, and later intelligence |
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18 | (4) |
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Speed of habituation and individual differences |
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18 | (2) |
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Visual recognition memory and individual differences |
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20 | (2) |
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22 | (3) |
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Cognition in infancy: Higher cognitive processes |
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25 | (48) |
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Moving into cognition: Perception-based knowledge representations |
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25 | (28) |
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Representing the structure of object features: The extraction of prototypes |
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25 | (1) |
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Processing inter-relations between features: The differentiation of prototypes |
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26 | (5) |
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Processing relations between objects |
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31 | (22) |
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Moving further into cognition: Meaning-based knowledge representations |
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53 | (3) |
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54 | (1) |
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Specialised modules for certain information? |
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55 | (1) |
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Reasoning and problem solving |
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56 | (4) |
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57 | (1) |
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The dog beneath the cloth |
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58 | (1) |
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The rabbits behind the wall |
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58 | (2) |
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The box suspended in mid-air |
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60 | (1) |
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60 | (6) |
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61 | (3) |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (4) |
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Search errors in reaching |
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66 | (2) |
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Search errors in crawling |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (3) |
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73 | (44) |
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Superordinate, subordinate, and ``basic-level'' categories |
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73 | (11) |
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The core developmental role of the ``basic level'' |
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74 | (1) |
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Sequential touching as a measure of basic-level categorisation |
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75 | (2) |
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The matching-to-sample task |
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77 | (1) |
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The core developmental role of the superordinate level? |
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78 | (2) |
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Child-basic categories vs. adult-basic categories |
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80 | (1) |
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Beyond the role of perceptual similarity in categorisation |
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81 | (3) |
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The role of language in conceptual development |
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84 | (2) |
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The biological/non-biological distinction |
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86 | (16) |
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Evidence from studies of biological movement |
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87 | (2) |
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Evidence from knowledge of self-generated movements |
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89 | (1) |
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Evidence from the assumption of shared core properties |
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90 | (2) |
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Concrete or abstract knowledge? |
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92 | (2) |
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Structure vs. function in categorising natural kinds and artifacts |
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94 | (1) |
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Evidence from studies of growth |
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95 | (2) |
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Analogy as a mechanism for understanding biological principles |
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97 | (1) |
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Evidence from studies of inheritance |
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98 | (3) |
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Evidence from studies of natural cause |
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101 | (1) |
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The representation of categorical knowledge |
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102 | (7) |
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The role of thematic relations in organising conceptual knowledge |
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102 | (2) |
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Representing categories in terms of characteristic vs. defining features |
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104 | (1) |
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Representing categories in terms of prototypes |
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105 | (4) |
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Conceptual development, ``essences'' and naive theories |
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109 | (2) |
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110 | (1) |
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The ``causes and effects of changes'' mode |
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110 | (1) |
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Conceptual change in childhood |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (4) |
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The development of causal reasoning |
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117 | (44) |
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Reasoning about causes and effects |
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118 | (5) |
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Reasoning about the causal transformations of familiar objects |
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119 | (2) |
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Reversible reasoning about causal transformations of familiar objects |
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121 | (1) |
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The salience of non-canonical states in early causal reasoning |
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122 | (1) |
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Reasoning on the basis of causal principles |
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123 | (7) |
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124 | (2) |
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The covariation principle |
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126 | (1) |
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The temporal contiguity principle |
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127 | (1) |
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The principle of the similarity of causes and effects |
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128 | (2) |
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The understanding of causal chains |
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130 | (7) |
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The understanding of mediate transmission |
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131 | (2) |
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The understanding of logical search |
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133 | (4) |
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Scientific reasoning: The understanding of situations involving multiple causal variables |
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137 | (5) |
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Integrating causal information about different physical dimensions |
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142 | (9) |
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The integration of knowledge about two dimensions |
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142 | (8) |
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The integration of knowledge about three dimensions |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (6) |
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Intuitive physics and projectile motion |
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152 | (2) |
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The distinction between knowledge and action |
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154 | (1) |
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Causal reasoning and the direction of causality |
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155 | (2) |
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157 | (1) |
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Is the development of causal reasoning domain-general? |
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158 | (3) |
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The development of memory |
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161 | (38) |
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162 | (5) |
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Infantile amnesia: A real phenomenon? |
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162 | (2) |
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Understanding symbolic representation as an aid to memory |
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164 | (3) |
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The development of different memory systems |
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167 | (30) |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (5) |
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174 | (5) |
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179 | (6) |
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185 | (12) |
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197 | (2) |
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Mnemonic strategies, metamemory and cognition |
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199 | (22) |
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The development of strategies for remembering |
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199 | (7) |
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The emergent use of mnemonic strategies |
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199 | (2) |
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Evidence for the strategic use of rehearsal |
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201 | (2) |
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Evidence for the strategic use of organisation by semantic category |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (3) |
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The relationship between memory development and cognitive development |
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209 | (9) |
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The novice-expert distinction |
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210 | (4) |
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The development of processing capacity |
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214 | (1) |
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Representational redescription as a theory of cognitive development |
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215 | (3) |
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218 | (3) |
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Logical reasoning in childhood |
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221 | (38) |
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Early-developing modes of logical reasoning |
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221 | (13) |
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221 | (6) |
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Deductive logic and deductive reasoning |
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227 | (7) |
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Later-developing modes of logical reasoning |
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234 | (20) |
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234 | (7) |
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The understanding of invariance |
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241 | (8) |
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249 | (5) |
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Halford's structure-mapping theory of logical development |
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254 | (2) |
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256 | (3) |
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Piaget's theory of logical development |
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259 | (22) |
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259 | (2) |
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The mechanisms of cognitive change |
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259 | (1) |
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Stages in cognitive development |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (8) |
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The six stages of sensory-motor cognition |
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261 | (2) |
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Sensory-motor cognition in different domains |
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263 | (3) |
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Evaluation of Piaget's sensory-motor stage in the light of recent research |
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266 | (3) |
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The pre-operational and concrete operational stages |
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269 | (4) |
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270 | (1) |
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Concrete operational thought |
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271 | (1) |
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Evaluation of recent research on the concrete operations |
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271 | (2) |
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Formal operational thought |
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273 | (4) |
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274 | (2) |
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Evaluation of recent research on the formal operations |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (4) |
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The ``what'' and ``why'' of children's cognition |
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281 | (14) |
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281 | (2) |
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Why does development pursue its observed course? |
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283 | (8) |
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Domain-general vs. domain-specific accounts of cognition in children |
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283 | (2) |
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Innate vs. acquired accounts of cognition in children |
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285 | (3) |
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Qualitative vs. quantitative accounts of developmental change |
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288 | (3) |
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291 | (4) |
References |
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295 | (22) |
Author index |
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317 | (8) |
Subject index |
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